Truetubestatus

[xtmw]

This might have already been talked about here. But I stumbled across 'truetubestatus'. Looks pretty interesting

Link here

[class411]

It would be if 'good service' actually meant anything (useful to passengers).

It's a notoriously vague summarisation.

[zbang]

like the information roundel sign I saw with the LED strip saying "NO INFORMATION AVAILABLE" (I have a photo of that somewhere).

[jswallow]

So, actually talking about the website, I think it’s a clever bit of programming and a useful tool to show how the lines are working. The arguments about ‘Good Service’ being a useless indication (which I largely agree with) become more of a moot point here as you can view the status of the line as a description, e.g. as of now, the Central line is showing:

77% longer wait at stations
9% longer running time between stations

And then by clicking the line diagram, you can see the status of the line for the last 15 minutes or so with coloured lines for sections of the line.

It’s going to help me know which way to go to work - I live between the Central line and Victoria line and either can get me to work in the mornings, so knowing what’s really happening is useful.

[class411]

Apologies to the OP (and the site developers); I didn't think to click on the line names - it looked so much like the screens you get at stations that I thought it was a static page.

[xtmw]

May 11, 2022 5:28:50 GMT jswallow said:

So, actually talking about the website, I think it’s a clever bit of programming and a useful tool to show how the lines are working. The arguments about ‘Good Service’ being a useless indication (which I largely agree with) become more of a moot point here as you can view the status of the line as a description, e.g. as of now, the Central line is showing:

77% longer wait at stations
9% longer running time between stations

And then by clicking the line diagram, you can see the status of the line for the last 15 minutes or so with coloured lines for sections of the line.

It’s going to help me know which way to go to work - I live between the Central line and Victoria line and either can get me to work in the mornings, so knowing what’s really happening is useful.

It'll be helpful for me as I use the Central during the night strikes and every night it just says 'Severe Delays due to train cancellations', however trains were every 4 minutes so I think it's massively helpful.

[spsmiler]

My goodness, if off-peak trains are every 4 minutes when the message suggests there are severe problems then what is a 'good' service?

Trains awaiting your arrival, a member of staff wearing a white dinner suit & gloves welcoming you aboard, escorting you to a seat of your choice and offering you a non-alcoholic welcome drink?

[xtmw]

May 11, 2022 15:23:09 GMT spsmiler said:

My goodness, if off-peak trains are every 4 minutes when the message suggests there are severe problems then what is a 'good' service?

Trains awaiting your arrival, a member of staff wearing a white dinner suit & gloves welcoming you aboard, escorting you to a seat of your choice and offering you a non-alcoholic welcome drink?

From what I can see, it varies every weekend! It's fine around 8 ish, 9 it winds down to trains every 8 or so minutes but at 11 ish it starts to wind down to every 20 minutes. Going offtopic so better go back to the title thread!

This is massively helpful, TfL sometimes don't advertise the service gaps for some reason, may just be they don't notice or forgot something on the technical part of it.